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Applications for Homeland Security |
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The evolution of networked video surveillance into a client/server application promises vast improvements in the ability to monitor and react in real-time to video intelligence. Never before has video been able to be monitored from so many locations simultaneously with smart video camera clients and centralized digital video recorders based on off-the-shelf server platforms.
Chief security officers at universities, hospitals, municipalities, port authorities and law enforcement agencies all have their eyes on scalable, centralized video surveillance. But all of these segments require one component that is not yet readily available – cost-effective and flexible wide area network capacity. While Wi-Fi based attachment of IP Video Stream (IPVS) cameras is indeed a flexible and cost-effective access method, it lacks the capacity and service reliability to handle the aggregated traffic of more than just a few cameras.
The underlying network infrastructure across an entire campus, a port or a larger municipal area, requires fiber like service capacity but fiber infrastructure is everything but low-cost or flexible. The high-capacity wireless mesh solution from ClearMesh Networks eclipses traditional wireless mesh networks by delivering 300 Mbps of bi-directional bandwidth to each site – abundant capacity capable of networking hundreds of video cameras in real-time.
The Sentry Mesh™ introduces the first infrastructure capable of supporting a fully converged IT platform; i.e. video surveillance along with other multi-media applications such as high-speed Internet access and low-cost VoIP, requiring guaranteed Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Asymmetric Internet access and low-capacity VoIP traffic literally "ride for free" over a streaming video surveillance network (or the other way around).
The only wireless solution capable of distributing toll quality voice, broadband Internet access, and multi-media surveillance services to hundreds of buildings, the Sentry Mesh serves as a long-term foundation able to support the evolution of fixed and wireless service access layers for years to come.
